A cool Vi/ViM tutorial is available from a developer of a Vi plugin for Visual Studio. I don't know about the plugin, but the tutorial is very nicely done and the resulting cheatsheet graphics is excellent!

Finally, after about a year and five months(!) of endless patience, Lior Kaplan (packages) got his account and is officially a Debian Developer. There is now another DD to help uploading packages for the Debian-Hebrew (English at the bottom) project and he doesn't need me to sponsor his packages.

Lior has been instrumental to the Debian-Hebrew project so far and I'm sure it will only help to have him on board with full privileges. Keep up the good work!

Joey mentioned a few unix utilities and started collecting them. I create utilities for my work but usually they are too specialized and mostly fall into the "process my unique file format" category. I have however a few more generally usable utilities which haven't seen the world outside my computer and thought I'd make them more accessible.

todist

Input is a list of numbers, one on a line. Output is their distribution, a value and how many time it occurs in the input. Useful for my statistics and performance work.

tostats

Input is a list of numbers, one on a line. Output is some statistics about the numbers: average, stddev, min, max, mid point.

I also have a few non-unix-style utils that are useful (to me), It's a fairly simple multiple machine synchronization by using multicast messages. It's also useful to synchronize on a single machine, running it at the end of one command sequence and running the receiver to wait for it to end and do some other commands. It enables the equivalent of: cmd && othercmd && thirdcmd for multiple branches, so I can run two or more command chains when one ends.

Steve, You say that most DDs care about the DPL election, I don't know about others, but I don't really care about the DPL election. I participated in all the former elections for DPLs and I never really saw any effect to the choice no matter if I was with the Condorcet majority or not. The DPL is in effect (or at least in my eyes) a pure figurehead whose identity is mostly meaningless.

I don't really care who the DPL will be since it is unlikely to have any real effect on my work or on Debian itself. I'm not quite sure I will bother to vote and think that not voting is the same as casting an empty vote as Raphaël Hertzog suggested.